Tales From The Mekong Delta
Everything turns a beautiful blue. Sights, sounds, touch, and mind-sets are changed. Creativity flows freely from your mind to the hand to the pen and to the paper. This blue is “the blue that knows you and where you live and it’s never going to forget”(107). The blue is the fix and excitement an addict gets from drugs. Addicts look for an escape. They feel that if they just have that hit they will enjoy life and its experiences to a fuller extent. In Kate Braverman’s short story “Tall Tales From the Mekong Delta,” she describes one woman’s struggle with drugs and how she eventually turns back to them after being sober for so many years. Through examining the changing appearance of Lenny, her longing for escape from every day life, and the use of blue and green, it is evident that her temptations will get the better of her and destroy all that she tries to maintain when sober.
Lenny is the symbol for her addiction. When first introduced to Lenny, she describes him with......
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